57.3838 Book Review: "Leaves Of Grass" By Walt Whitman.
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass represents a poetic perspective of the cultural changes that were taking place in America at the end of the century. Whitman's collection of poems are more than poetry, can be read as a cultural biography, a celebration of one of the first publications of free verse poetry, and the insights of an openly passionate man who lived nowhere, but everywhere in the shifting culture of America. 6 pgs. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Pages: 6
Bibliography: 4 source(s) listed
Filename: 3838 Leaves of Grass.doc
Price: US$53.70
58.3839 Book Review: "Mrs. Dalloway" By Virginia Woolf.
This essay reviews Virginia Woolf's (1925) Mrs. Dalloway as a novel that is both a modernist narrative, and also experimental writing with avant-garde concepts of space and time. Mrs. Dalloway is both a story, and a philosophy of human consciousness, combined into a single day's events in London. The scope of themes in this novel are vast, and are contained in a style of writing that reveals Woolf's interests in human consciousness and the time/space philosophies of her own era. 6 pgs. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Pages: 6
Bibliography: 3 source(s) listed
Filename: 3839 Mrs Dalloway Woolf.doc
Price: US$53.70
59.3841 Davis, Natalie Zemon "The Return of Martin Guerre" Harvard University Press Cambridge, MS: 1983. 162 pp.
The Return of Martin Guerre documents a strange sixteenth-century court case that has fascinated people ever since. A peasant Martin Guerre abandoned his wife and family and disappeared. Years later a man claiming to be Martin Guerre returned and resumed Martin's life. Later he was accused of being an imposter. On the point of winning his trial the real Martin Guerre appeared. This review analyzes this volumes revelations regarding masculinity, gender and marriage in the sixteenth century. 5 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Pages: 5
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 3841 Return Martin Guerre.doc
Price: US$44.75
60.3852 Book Report: The Culture of Technology by Arnold Pacey.
Today, on the verge of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Information Technology Revolution, there is an unprecedented level of interest in both industry and academia as to how technology functions in terms of human interests and social organizations. One of the primary themes of Arnold Pacey's The Culture of Technology is that both the design and the practice of technology are embedded in human society and culture. As will be seen, he rejects the theoretical model of technological determinism in favour of a human-centred perspective on the development and application of technology. 5 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Pages: 5
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 3852 Culture of Technology.doc
Price: US$44.75
61.3881 "Women and Gender in Islam" Book Report.
This is a 4-page book report on the recent historical study Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. The book chronicles the position of women in Islamic society from the first marriage of Muhammad to the present day. It is steeped in the traditions of women's studies, but it draws heavily upon historical accounts of Islam as a religion and a socio-cultural system. 5 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Pages: 5
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 3881 Women in Islam.doc
Price: US$44.75
62.3889 A Synopsis and Opinion of the book "The American Intellectual Tradition".
This paper will focus on a brief summary of the book "The American Intellectual Tradition Vol.1" and encapsulate the main message of the information within. The first half of the paper will focus on a synopsis of the book and the second half will be an opinion based on what was learned in the synopsis of the paper. 5 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Pages: 5
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 3889 American Intellectual Tradition.doc
Price: US$44.75
63.3913 Book Report: Confederacy of Dunces.
This is a 5 page, 1 resource paper detailing the main character, Ignatius Reilly from the book A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. 5 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
